A Couple of Thoughts On President Obama

Oh man, what a week.: My thoughts on the debate: were pretty much in line with every other two-legged creature roaming the Earth, and my reaction to the blame-game in the aftermath of the Romney victory still brings a smile to my face. Who didn’t enjoy watching Chris Matthews meltdown? I got to accurately call Barack Obama “the nation’s first ‘participation trophy’ President” and point out how he’s “conducted his presidency in bubble-wrap.”

But it wasn’t all fun. The unemployment numbers came out Friday and the rate dropped from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent. Although that sounds like progress, it didn’t happen because people actually found jobs — only 114,000 did so in September, which isn’t enough to keep up with population growth. It was because the Bureau of Labor Statistics “found” jobs that were created months ago. As the Associated Press put it, “The revisions show employers added 146,000 jobs per month from July through September, up from 67,000 in the previous three months.”

The number of actual people in the workforce is pathetic, the economy is “growing” at a slower rate than it did last year, and nothing involving real math indicates the economy is improving in any genuine way.

Reality hasn’t stopped President Obama from touting the new mythical unemployment rate like he’d personally discovered the cure for cancer. He said, “We’ve made too much progress to return to the policies that led to the crisis in the first place.”

I get that the president is running for re-election and will spin anything he can to his advantage. That’s politics. But the president’s lies are beyond normal political spin; they border on pathology. No concerned leader would revel in the pain caused by the economy he has done so little to help.

I’ve had that thought for a while, and it reminds me of a recent conversation. A friend asked if I thought President Obama was a sociopath. It sounds crazy, which is what I thought upon hearing it. And he’s probably not. But a lot of what he does and says really made my friend wonder.

Dictionary.com defines a sociopath as “a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.” Neither of us thinks the president is a psychopath, or that he’s particularly anti-social — though do we know anything about his friends? As far as criminal goes, Fast and Furious, his associations with: Tony Rezkoand: Bill Ayers: (the only friends of his we know of), and: his ignoring the oath he swore to the Constitution: to do what: he can’t or won’t get through Congress: could fall into that area. But I’m not even really talking about that.

It’s the last bit, the “lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience” part that stuck in his craw — and mine, once I thought about it.

The president seems to like the idea of being president much more than he likes to actually do the job.

A look at his daily schedule over his term shows light days, often starting at 10 a.m. Only recently have they included his Presidential Daily Briefing on national security on a regular basis, and that was only after: he was criticized: for not taking them. (Here’s his schedule, scroll around and look at it.)

A light schedule could be attributed to a lot of things, but for a president who has played more golf in three years (100 times) than most people will play in a lifetime it makes you wonder if he even likes doing the job.

Admittedly, an active recreational life doesn’t constitute a lack of moral compass. But his indifference and dispassion for world events that don’t make him look good kind of do.

When Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered in Libya, the president’s remarks to the media could not have been more disconnected. His: Rose Garden statement was stoic, as if he was just going through the motions. There was no sense he actually cared. You could say he was being somber, but he read it more as someone acting somber than actually feeling it. And where was the anger, the righteous indignation in the face of the murder of an American diplomat? It didn’t exist.

If the murder of the man you sent to a country you helped liberate doesn’t inspire anger, what does? (This,: this: and: this. So being questioned, but not the murder of a diplomat.)

The shameful, race-baiting remarks were not in the prepared text upon which all: reporting: of the: event: I could find was: done. So lazy journalism enabled him to get away with that lie. Until yesterday.

Although all these events do show a “lack of moral responsibility and social conscience,” I told my friend I didn’t think the president is a sociopath. Egomaniac? Definitely. Narcissist? Without a doubt. But what I think he is, at his core, is an agenda-driven liberal with the charm of an actor working off a good script who will do anything he has to implement his agenda and couldn’t care less about restriction on his power or the people over whom he “rules.” He does what he wants and anyone or anything in his way be damned.